94 Dr. von Heuglin on the Malurinje 



Observed rarely in the forest-region of the most central parts 

 of Africa, in the provinces Bongo and Dembo in April and 

 August. It lives singly in dense bushes intermixed with tall 

 grass, and has a loud and pleasant song. It appears to me 

 nearest to Drymceca erythroptera, which, however, has a much 

 shorter blackish bill and considerably longer remiges, but a 

 rather shorter tail. 



Specimens in the Museums at Stuttgart and Leyden. 



12. Drymceca marginata ; Drymceca marginalis, Heugl., 



Syst. Ueb. No. 175. 



(Plate I. fig. 1.) 



Pileo et nucha Isete rufescenti-fulvis, illius plumis maculis me- 

 dianis latis nitide umbrino nigricantibus notatis; cervice 

 pallidiore immaculata ; interscapulio, tergo, scapularibus, 

 tectricibus alarum primi ordinis tertiariisque Ipete nigris, 

 late et conspicue pallide fulvo marginatis, tertiariarum 

 marginibus internis magis albidis, externis et tectricum 

 majorum marginibus magis rufescenti-indutis ; uropygio et 

 supracaudalibus cervinis, immaculatis; rertricibus \ me- 

 dianis medio lougitudinaliter fumoso nigricantibus, late at 

 nee abrupte fulvo-cervino marginatis, apicem versus macula 

 obsoleta nigricante instructis ; reliquis fumoso canis, pogo- 

 nio externo magis cervinis, ante apicem albidum nigricanti- 

 notatis ; remigibus pallide fumosis, pogonio externo (apice 

 excepto) stricte rufescenti-cervino-, intus basin versus hepa- 

 tico albido-marginatis ; tectricibus alee minoribus cano 

 fulvis, medio fumosis ; subtus ex fulvescente sericeo albida, 

 gula et abdomine medio purius albis, pectore, hypochon- 

 driis, crisso et cruribus Isetius rufescenti-fulvo adumbratis ; 

 loris fulvescenti-, ciliis pure albis; rostro cerino corneo, 

 maxilla magis fusceseente ; iride helvola ; pedibus rubellis. 

 Long. tot. 4" 10'", rostr. a fr. 5-2"'-5-6"', al. 1" 10"'-2", caud. 



2"-2" 2'", tars. 8-8"'-8-9"'. 



Like Drymceca erythrogenys, but much smaller, the bill rather 

 shorter and much more curved, feet, wings, and tail considerably 

 shorter, the vertex bright light-brownish rusty-yellow, with 

 much broader brownish-black spots on the shafts, which disap- 

 pear on the nape, where they are broadest and closest together 

 in D. erythrogenys ; the bright rusty fawn-coloured margins of 

 the feathers of the greater wing-coverts and tertial remiges are 

 much broader and still more distinctly marked, those of the inner 



